A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

I refuse putting from me the best that I am.

There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years.

I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!